Hopefully you had a great Sunday – just like we did. Great weather, a nice breeze, delicious food and a good book. Just a perfect sailing day. We escaped the eddy kracken and had the current with us again. Robert read aloud from the book ‘Als Schisser um die Welt’ (‘Around the world as a sissy’) by Jan Kowalsky. Hilarious and entertaining, a fun read, don’t know whether it has been translated into English yet. We love reading aloud to each other out at sea, preferably travel or sailing stories. Great for that are e.g. the books by Tristan Jones, a very Salty Dog.

Besides the Eddy, good things happened within the last days. Since we took a route far from the coast we were able to escape the thunderstorms. Especially along the Florida coast which is sometimes referred to as the lightning capital of the world. Each night we could watch the lightning show at our portside. Only last week a friend of ours cast off from West Palm Beach to deliver a boat to Jacksonville FL, only to return a few hours later – lightning strike! The electronics were gone. We’ve heard more of those stories and are happy to have spared this experience.

Although we slowed down significantly when we had the current against us on Saturday, we’ve been proceeding quite well after that. Only a few hours left till we will reach the Morehead/Beaufort NC inlet. We will let the storm pass by which is building up in the Gulf of Mexico right now. Its predicted route is exactly ours, up the Eastcoast to Hatteras and on to the Azores. It looks like we have to wait until Wednesday and start then, 2.320 nautical miles.

Have a great start into the new week! We’re looking forward to have you on board as we start for the next leg across the Atlantic.